Chiropractic Effective for TMJ Pain After Car Crash

Jaw or TMJ pain is a fairly common condition experienced by many people after a car accident, and it can be confusing for some health practitioners to identify the cause of the issue. Complicating the issue, many times you won't experience TMJ pain until many weeks or months after the original injury.

Gadsden Family Chiropractic has helped many people with jaw pain after an injury, and the medical research explains what triggers these types of problems. During a auto collision, the tissues in your spine are often stretched or torn, causing ligament, muscle, or nerve damage. This can clearly cause pain in the neck and back, but since your nervous system is one functioning unit, inflammation of the nerves can cause pain in other parts of your body.

For example, with radicular pain, irritation of a nerve can cause prickling or numbness in the arm and hand. Similarly, it can affect parts of your body above the injured tissues, like your head and jaw. Headaches after auto accident are very common because of neck injury, and the TMJ works the same way. Gadsden Family Chiropractic sees this very often in our Gadsden office.

Research Proves Chiropractic Treatment Helps TMJ Pain After Car Crash

Studies have shown that the source of many jaw or TMJ symptoms starts in the neck and that treatment of the underlying neck injury can fix the secondary headaches or jaw symptoms. The key to dealing with these symptoms is simple: Gadsden Family Chiropractic will work to return your spinal column back to health, relieving the inflammatory reaction, treating the injured areas, and eliminating the irritation to the nerves in your spine.

Gadsden Family Chiropractic has found that jaw and headache symptoms often resolve once we return your spine to its healthy state.

If you reside in Gadsden and you've been hurt in a crash, Gadsden Family Chiropractic can help. We've been working with auto injury patients for many years and we can probably help you, too. Give our office a call today at (256) 543-3033 for an appointment or consultation.

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